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How to let windows 11 "never combine taskbar buttons"?
- The November 2023 update added “never combined” mode on the taskbar for Windows 11. To find this feature, go to Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Taskbar behaviors. Set Combine taskbar buttons and hide labels to Never. It also added a separate setting for turning this feature on for other taskbars when you use multiple monitors.
I've mentioned this before. Going on past Microsoft behaviour, it's very probable that this feature will never get put into Windows 11. Windows 12 maybe, but we'll never see it officially implemented in 11 imo. In fact, if it does get put back in, I will join the Flat Earth Society of Scientologists. FESS.
- We must hammer them from every vantage point we can find:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/tech-community-ideas/create-mtc-community-insider/idc-p/3782539#M3750
Interesting that this post was delayed, because of a warning that I'm Post Flooding:
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Post flooding detected (user tried to post more than 4 messages within 900 seconds)
Wonderful!
hahaha, and again... look at this one:
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That's 4 hours after the calculations, but I suspect after the 4 hours is up there will be another constraint.
Nice going Microsoft. Great use of units. Let's remember we like to post speeds in Furlongs/Fortnight. Geezzzzzzz...
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ok, now this error:
Authentication Failed.
Authentication Ticket Mismatched, failed authentication.
hahaha- ok, that took hours. Nothing is easy when trying to complain about the loss of a very important default behavior that we need back!
Deleted That's a good idea, unfortunately the topic is closed already by the "Hey! I have the final word around here" Community Manager.
From the Microsoft side of things any kind of official answer to this kind of thing would be entwined in all sorts of red-tape. There would have to be meetings, feasibility analysis, user impact studies, cost projections et ad infinitum before any kind of official word. They certainly wouldn't want individual employees weighing into the discussions and potentially giving erroneous expectations to users. I'm sure there are plenty of MS devs, project managers etc.. already aware that the removal of this feature has caused a lot of user anger. and it could be that this has already been put onto the table and rejected. If that were the case it's almost certain that there would be no public disclosure of that decision. The only way we would be told about it is if they decided to go ahead and implement it.
This kind of user support structure is now very common for a lot of corporations. It gives them an easy direction to point people without having to do much themselves in dealing with user questions/requests/enquiries and at the same time deliberately distance themselves from any kind of official participation, saying "It's not an officially supported platform". Very convenient method to essentially automate customer support. For them to do what you are suggesting would be negating the purpose and usefulness of this place to them.
Thank you!
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A serious answer is in this article , which explains unequivocally the reasons for removing this feature :
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/08/27/update-on-windows-11-minimum-system-requirements-and-the-pc-health-check-app/
